Roche is a global healthcare and pharmaceutical company focused on advancing patient care through research and development, digital innovation, and collaboration. With a workforce of more than 101,000 employees, the company brings together expertise across technology, manufacturing, business strategy, and other functions that support healthcare innovation. Roche highlights diversity, equity, and inclusion across its international teams and offers career pathways for experienced professionals, students, and graduates, including opportunities connected to its operations in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Senior Technical Lead, Observability — Roche, Poland
Lead Roche’s enterprise application observability strategy, architecture, and delivery. Strengthen SRE, DevSecOps, and platform reliability across regulated healthcare operations.
Description
- Set the technical direction, architecture roadmap, and high-level design for application observability platforms and frameworks.
- Maintain scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency throughout the product lifecycle.
- Design and roll out enterprise observability capabilities and telemetry frameworks.
- Champion OpenTelemetry standards and expand SRE practices across application and infrastructure teams.
- Guide infrastructure as code, automated CI/CD, container platforms, and DevSecOps practices.
- Define engineering standards, code quality expectations, and architectural consistency.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical colleagues working across locations.
- Work with product owners, architects, stakeholders, and external service providers to set priorities and turn product strategy into technical specifications.
- Maintain compliance with quality, regulatory, and security requirements.
- Support IT service management, technical audit remediation, disaster recovery, and operational resilience planning.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 7 years of practical experience in software development, DevOps/DevSecOps, or platform engineering.
- At least 2 years of experience in a multinational, highly regulated environment.
- Demonstrated ability to guide, mentor, and motivate engineering teams distributed across locations.
- Advanced knowledge of application observability tools, frameworks, and vendors, such as Grafana Cloud, Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, and LogicMonitor.
- Working proficiency with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform Cloud, HashiCorp Vault, Ansible, and Consul.
- Proficiency with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycles, GitLab or GitHub, and scripting or programming languages such as Python.
- Understanding of solution, information, and process architecture; Agile delivery; Jira; and Confluence.
- Strong spoken and written English communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
- Ability to manage service provider and vendor relationships and align technical delivery with business strategy.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package.
- Local compensation details are provided before a business interview where applicable.